Me
Mechwart?FN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC
Wuerzburg (no locality mentioned). Later spelled Marquardt.
MeckFN:
said by the GCRA to have come to Glueckstal, origin unknown.
See their book for detail.
MeckelFN: said by the 1798 Seelmann census to be the
maiden name of frau Oswald (Sm41).
MeckelFN: said by the Stahl-am-Tarlyk FSL to be fromUC
Baruth, [Kur-]Sachsen. For 1798 see Mai1798:St23
and 25.
MeckendorfGL: an unidentified place said by the Boregard
FSL to be homeUC to a Bleier? family. I can find
Mueckendorfs, Muckendorfs and a Machkendorf, but no
Meckendorf.
Mecker?FN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Dessau (no locality mentioned). I could not find this family in the
1798 Volga censuses.
MeckerFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be an orphan
boy in the Fau household.
MecklenburgGS: as is shown below, there were two independent
Mecklenburg duchies in the 1760’s. I have found no way to distinguish which
one is referred to in the immediately following entries: Said (no locality
mentioned) by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to a
Mannenger family. Said (no locality indicated) by the Stumpp supplement
to the Dietel FSL to be homeUC to Dam, Herbst, and
Vogt families. Said (no locaility mentioned) by the Jost FSL
to be homeUC to a Schielberg family. Said (no locality
mentioned) by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a
widow Muss, as well as Westhausen and possibly Grassmann
families. Said (no locality indicated) by the Kratzke FSL to be homeUC
to a Becker family. Said (no locality indicated) by the Merkel
FSL to be homeUC to a VonHolstein family. Said (no
locality mentioned) by the Norka FSL to be homeUC to
Eberhard, Hoffman/Hoffmann and Lehl families. Said (no
locality mentioned) by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a
Herr family.
Mecklenburg-Schwerin [Duchy]GS: was the larger of the
two Mecklenburg duchies, with lands stretching from a bit E of Luebeck
city in a 60-mile-wide swath along the Baltic for some 75 miles, including
the village of Mecklenburg and the city of Schwerin. No locality was
mentioned in the following references: Said by the Boaro FSL to be
homeUC to a Fer? family. Said by the Boregard FSL
to be homeUC to the Jensen families. Said by the Jost
FSL to be homeUC to Hoffmann and Schmidt families.
Said by the Kratzke FSL to be homeUC to a Burmeister
family. Said by the Reinhard FSL to be homeUC to
the Borat? and Fromm families. Said by the Rosenheim
FSL to be homeUC to a Treu man. Said by the Schaefer
FSL to be homeUC frau Schulz.
Mecklenburg-StrelitzGS: was the smaller of the two
Mecklenburg duchies, with lands around and between Neubrandenburg and
Neustrelitz, including the village of Strelitz. Said by the Dobrinka
FSL to be homeUC to a Hahn family.
MedardGL, Meisenheim, Rheinland-Pfalz: is some
3.5 miles SW of Meisenheim city, and proven
by GCRA to be home to the Amann family that went to
Bergstal and to Glueckstal They also believe that this
may be the ancestral homeUC of the Heyl/Veil family that
went to Glueckstal, as well as of the Maurer/Mauerer
family that settled in Neudorf. See the GCRA book for more.
MedebachGL: said by the Mariental FSL to be homeUC
to an Oberlieser family. There is a Medebach some 33 miles WSW of
Kassel city.
MedequeFN: said by the Franzosen FSL to be fromUC
Derne?, Frankreich. I could not find this family in the 1798
Volga censuses.
MederFN:
said by the Holstein FSL to be fromUC Langenstein,
Sachsen.
MederFN:
said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Aschaffenburg.
Medernach, Luxembourg [Duchy] is 14 miles NNE of
Luxembourg city, and said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC
to a Burhoven family.
Medernas, Luxembourg [Duchy]: an unidentified place said
by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Damplon
family. Most likely this was Medernach.
MediaschGL: see Mednsch.
MedingerFN: said by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:671,
371) to be Beinstein, Waiblingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
Using FHL(1,056,989), the GCRA verified this origin. See the GCRA book for
more details. Also spelled Moedinger.
Mednsch?GL, [Siebenbuergen Principality]: this was
Mediasch, now Medias, Romania, some 224 miles ENE of Novi Sad,
Batschka, and said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC
to an Engler family. Kuhlberg said this was in Siebenbuergen?.
Medvedickij Krestovyj BuerakVV, is a Russian name for
FrankVV.
Medveditzkoi Krestovoi BuyerakVV, is a Russian name for
FrankVV.
Medwedizki Krestowoi BujerakVV, is a Russian name for
FrankVV.
Meer?FN:
said by the Dobrinka FSL to be fromUC Epping, Felzer(?).
MeerholzGL, Isenburg-Meerholz
County: the town was the seat of the County. The town was just SW of
Gelnhausen city and has long since been absorbed as a suburb or
neighberhood into Gelnhausen city.
[Isenburg-]Meerholz
[County]: was said (no locality mentioned) by the Reinwald
FSL to be homeUC to the Wilhelm family.
MegenGL,
Holland: is 24 miles SSE of Amersfoort, and said by the
Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Alstfoerst
family.
Meggerdorf, Holstein: is 28 miles W of Kiel city. Gerhard
Lang and Dona Reeves Marquardt proved that the Schwin/Schwien
who later settled in Holstein near the Volga was here at least as early as
1763.
MehfelderFN: said by the Leitsinger FSL to be fromUC
Pikotn?, Bamberg [Bishopric]. I could not find this
family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
MehlFN:
said by the Reinhard FSL to be fromUC Guestrow,
Mecklenburg[-Schwerin Duchy]. For 1790 and 1798 see Mai1798:Mv2386,
Rh11, Bo32, En41).
Mehl
FN: said by the Straub FSL to be fromUC
Grossrechtenbah, Nassau-Weilburg [Principality]. I
did not find them or any descendants in Mai1798.
MehlbachGL: said by a Friedberg ML to be homeUC
to a Nicodemus woman who married in 1766 a Wetter man; by 1767
the couple was in Kukkus (Mai&Marquardt#348). There is a
Mehlbach some 33 miles W of Mannheim, in the Rhineland-Palatinate.
MehlbergerFN{Michael}: said (no locality mentioned) by the
Degott FSL to be fromUC Saulcet dr. Allier,
Lothringen. I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
MehlhafFN: both the 1816 Kassel census (#79) and KS:371
said this family came fromUC Eppingen,
Sinsheim [Amt],
Baden. Using FHL#1,189,091-2,
the GCRA verified this origin. See their book for more.
MehlhornFN: said by the Reinhard FSL to be fromUC
Auerbach, [Kur-]Sachsen. For 1798 see Mai1798:Rh24.
MelhornFN: the wife was said by the Reinhard FSL to be
fromUC Muenchen, [Kurbayern].
MehlingFN: said by the 1798 Norka census to be the
maiden name of frau Schaefer{J.Heinrich} (Mai1798:Nr198).
MehlingFN: said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC
Poleng, Durlach principality.
Mehlis, [Kursachsen]: is 3 miles N of Suhl city, and was
said by the Grimm FSL to be homeUC Schott and
possibly Berger families. Said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to
homeUC to a Anshuetz family; Kuhlberg said this was in
Sachsen.
MehmFN:
said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Hannover.
Later spelled Mem?] (Mai1798:Pf92). The Buedingen
ML says this Mehn man of Gros Auheim married a Walther
woman of Froschhausen in 1766; Stumpp says both places are near the
city of Hanau (Mai&Marquardt:593).
Mehmels, Kurmainz[sic?]: said by the Seelmann FSL to be
homeUC to a Hammer family. The only Mehmels I can find is
8 km NW of Meningen city and was then in either Eisenach Duchy
or Memingen Duchy, not in Kurmainz.
MehnFN:
see Mehm.
Mehner?FN: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC
Sterzhausen?with a Heinrich orphan girl in the household. I
could not find the Mehner family in the 1798 censuses.
MehrenbergGL: said by a Friedberg ML to be homeUC
to a Schmidt woman who married in 1766 a Laub man from
Niederohm (Mai&Marquardt#313). See Merenberg.
MehringerFN: see Meringer.
MehrleinFN: see Helmlein and Merlein.
MeibachFN: said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC
Pfafenmoisbakh/Pfaffenwiesbach(?), Kurmainz.
MeibeierFN: said by the Herzog FSL to be fromUC
Augsburg, [Kur-]Bayern.
MeichesGL: is some14 miles WSW of Schlitz city and was
in the Felda Jurisdiction, Hessen-Darmstadt Duchy.
MeichesGL: see Mengers and Schlitz.
MeidingerFN: both the 1858 Kassel census (#235, 236)
and KS:371 said this family came from
Neipperg, Brackenheim [Amt],
Wuerttemberg. Using FHL#1,184,764
the GCRA proved this origin. See
their book for more.
MeierFN,
Mayer, Maier, and Meyer, follow, interspersed.
Maier
FN {Anna Maria}: said by the 1798 Anton census to be the maiden
name of frau Kraut (Mai1798:An19).
MeierFN:
said by the Balzer FSL to be fromUC Schweiz.
Spelled Maier in 1798 (Mai1798:Bz39, 81).
MeierFN:
listed in the Bergdorf 1816 census (KS:659, 371) without
origin. Earliest origin proved by GCRA using FHL(1,475,250)
was a fortress called Bertholdsdorf or Bertholdshoefe on the eastern edge of
Schwenningen, with the next generation moving to Gaechingen,
Urach [Amt]. Using FHL(1054,332) they traced the next
generation to Ludwigsburg from whence members of the family went to
Russia. All three places were in Wuerttemberg. For more
detail see the GCRA book.
Meier
FN{Dorothea}: given as the maiden name of frau Gottlieber by
the Boaro FSL.
MeierFN{Heinrich,FranzJoseph}:
according to the Boaro FSL they were step-sons of a Gottlieber
man who was fromUC Clausthal(?). For 1798 see
Mai1798:Mn4.
MeierFN:
said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Hendendein?.
MeierFN:
said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Trochtelfingen,
Fuerstenberg? [Principality], Schwaben.
MeyerFN:
said by the Stumpp supplement to the Dietel FSL to be fromUC
Wuerttemberg (no locality indicated). In 1798 spelled Maier (Mai1798:Dt46).
MeierFN:
said by the Dobrinka FSL to be fromUC Darabach(?),
Oesterreich.
MeierFN:
said by the Dobrinka FSL to be fromUC Rostock,
Mecklenburg. Later spelled Maier (Mai1798:Db10, Mv445,
Dr4, Mv457, Gm37).
MeierFN:
said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC Wuerttemberg
(no locality mentioned). Later spelled Maier.
Meier{Johann}FN:
said by the Dreispitz FSL to be fromUC Foffelhof?
Wittenberg. In 1798 the family name was spelled Maier (Mai1798:Dr31).
Gerhard Lang
proved the wife was the d/o Beisel{Friedrich Jacob} (dr5) and married
in Sulzfeld; he also proved Johannes’
birth in 1732 in Pfaffenhofen, and that he lived for a time in
Friedrichsanbau on the way to Dreispitz.
Meier{Valentin}FN:
said by the Dreispitz FSL to be fromUC Pfaffenhofen,
Wuerttemberg. George Lang says he was born in 1696, but also
said he died before 1761 which is not correct – he died after 1768.
MeierFN:
said by the Fischer FSL to be fromUC Heidelberg,
Kurpfalz. The family name was spelled Maier in 1798 (Mai1798:Fs17).
MeierFN:
said by the Fischer FSL to be fromUC Rohrbach,
Kurpfalz. The family name was spelled Maier in 1798 (Mai1798:Fs9,24).
Meier{Christian}FN:
listed by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:672, 676) with no
origin; but KS:371 said they came fromUC Hindlingen,
Altkirch [Amt], Elsass. However, using FHL(1,457,485),
the GCRA
proved origin in Pfaeffingen, Tuebingen [Amt],
Wuerttemberg. See the GCRA book for more details.
Meier{Georg}FN:
listed by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:671) with no origin,
but KS:364 (mistakenly saying he (Maier) went to Alexanderhilf,
Odessa instead of Glueckstal) says he came from Tuebingen, [Tuebingen
Amt], Wuerttemberg. Using FHL(1,457,393 and 1,457,388),
the GCRA
proved origin in Tuebingen, Tuebingen [Amt],
Wuerttemberg. See the GCRA book for more details.
Meier{Jakob}FN:
died in Glueckstal and said to be fromUC Helmlingen,
Baden; but the GCRA found no record of him in Helmlingen,
near Buehl; see their book for a bit more detail.
Meier{Jakob,
Christian,Georg}FN: said by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:672,
676, 363) to be fromUC Hindlingen, Altkirch [Amt],
Elsass. However, using FHL(1,569,074-5, and 1,569,082),
the GCRA proved origin in Reutlingen,
Reutlingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg. See the GCRA
book for more details.
Maier{Michael}:
this family was in Glueckstal for a time and were said by KS:364
to be from Moessingen, Rottenburg [Amt],
Tuebingen [Oberamt], Wuerttemberg. This origin was
proved by the GCRA using FHL 1,457,467; see their book
for detail.
MaierFN:
said by the 1798 census to be the maiden name of the wife of the Rome
man who settled in Herzog (Mai1798:Hv22).
MeyerFN:
according to the Buedingen ML a Meyer woman fromUC
Reicheim married a Buchsbaum man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was
in Holstein; Stumpp says she was fromUC Reichelsheim,
although he was not certain what state that was in (Mai&Marquardt#585).
MeierFN:
said by the Husaren FSL to be fromUC Mannheim, [Kurpfalz].
MeierFN:
said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC Wert?,
Nuernberg.
MeierFN:
said by the Jost FSL to be a widow, betrowthed to Herr Brenner,
living in his household.
MeierFN:
said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Frankfurt-am-Main.
Mayer{?}FN:
said by KS:369 to be have goneUC to Kassel fromUC
BrackenheimGL, Heilbronn [Oberamt],
Wuerttemberg, but the GCRA could find no record of any such
family in Kassel at any time.
Maier{Heinrich}FN:
listed in the 1858 Kassel census (#192), but the GCRA could
find no origin for them; see their book for more detail.
Meier/Maier{J.Adam,
J.Georg, J.Konrad, Jakob} FN: listed by the 1816 Kassel
census (#50), the 1858 census (#150, 248), and KS:364 & 371 without
origin. Using FHL#1,336,611, 1,1882,595, 1,833,189, and 1,884,075
the GCRA proved origin in Adersbach,
Sinsheim [Amt], Baden, although the family had moved to
Ehrstaedt, Sinsheim [Amt], Baden before
immigrating to Russia. For frau Meier{Adam} see Ziegler.
See the GCRA book for more.
Maier{J.Georg}FN:
listed by the 1858 Kassel census (#168, 169) without origin. See the
GCRA book under Benz{Johannes} for a bit more.
Meier{Peter}FN:
listed by the 1816 Kassel census (#31), the 1858 census (#149) and
KS:364 and 371 without origin. Using FHL#247,603,
the GCRA proved origin in Goecklingen, Landau [Amt],
Rheinpfalz.
MeierFN:
the Katharinenstadt FSL says this orphan was living with a Spiss
family from Bayreuth.
MeierFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Manzenburg(?).
MeierFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Nassau-Usingen
(no locality mentioned). A Luebeck ML says this Meyer man
married in 1765 a Heil woman; Stumpp says the marriage was in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#21).
Later spelled Maier (Mai1798:Ka6).
MeierFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Worms.
MeierFN:
said by the Kautz FSL to be fromUC Hasslock/Hassloch,
Kurpfalz.
MeierFN:
said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Laubach.
Also spelled Maier.
MeierFN:
said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Nidda, Darmstadt.
Also spelled Maier.
MeierFN:
said by the Louis FSL to be fromUC Bitsch,
Lothringen. In 1798 the family name was sometimes spelled Maier
(Mai1798:Ls7).
MeierFN:
said by the Mariental FSL to be fromUC Hohenburg.
The name was later spelled Maier and his wife's maiden name was given
as Koernmeier (Mai1798:Mt53).
MeierFN:
said by the Mariental FSL to be fromUC Straubing, [Kur-]Bayern.
The family name was later spelled Maier (Mai1798:Mt70).
MeierFN:
said by the Mueller FSL to be fromUC Wall. The
Kuhlberg list gives the state as Isenburg.
MeierFN{Gottfried}:
said (no locality mentioned) by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC
[Kur-]Sachsen.
MeierFN{Kaspar}:
said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Orbach.
MaierFN{Katharina}:
said by the1798 Neidermonjou census to be the maiden name of frau
Beitnitz.
MeierFN{Michael}:
said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Nuernberg.
Meier{Johannes}FN:
said by the 1816 Neudorf census (#112) to have come fromUC
Walddorf, Tuebingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg. Also
spelled Maier. See the GCRA book for a bit more.
Meier{Maria}:
listed in the 1816 Neudorf census (#70) along with her widowed,
remarried mother, Eva (Walter) (Meier)Lippert. The
GCRA says the death reports of both women indicate birth in an
unidentified place called Roth, Wuerttemberg. See the GCRA
book under all three family names for more.
Maier{Michael}FN:
said by KS:364 to have come from Groetzingen, Nuertingen [Amt],
Wuerttemberg and to be in the 1816 Neudorf census (#112). The
GCRA says this man was not in Neudorf.
Maier{Michael}FN:
listed by the 1858 Neudorf census (#244) without origin and said by
KS:364 to be from Moessingen,
Tuebingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
Using FHL#1457,467, the GCRA proved
this origin. See their book for more. Also spelled Mayer.
Meier{Elizabeta}FN:
said by the Norka FSL to be a daughter of Martin Meier living in the
Dick household.
Meier{Martin}FN:
said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Hanau [County]
(no locality mentioned). Spelled Maier in 1788 and 1798 (Mai1798:Mv1935,
Mv1936 and Hk11). The Buedingen ML says this Mayer man
married a Schlinckenfing woman in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#374).
MeyerFN:
said by a Rosslau ML to be the maiden name of frau Helde (Mai&Marquardt#905).
See Golde of Orlovskaya.
MeierFN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Binningen?.
MeierFN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Dansenberg?,
Pflaz.
MeierFN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Grossen Buseck.
MeierFN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Wien.
MeierFN:
said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC Winzenheim,
Alsace. Also spelled Maier.
Maier{Michael}FN:
said by the 1798 census to have come from Rosenfeld (Mai1798:Bo5),
but I could not find him in the Rosenfeld FSL.
Meier{Christoph}FN:
said by the Rothammel FSL to be fromUC Strassburg,
Alsace.
Meier{Christoph}FN:
said by the Schaefer FSL to be fromUC Oppeln?, [Kur-]Sachsen.
He may well have died prior to the 1798 Volga censuses.
MaierFN:
said by the 1798 Schuck census to be the maiden name for frau
Krieger (Mai1798:Su2).
Maier
FN: said by the1798 Mariental census to be the maiden name of
frau Kostnitz (Mai1798:Mt73) who was said (no locality mentioned) by
the Schulz FSL to be fromUC Kurpfalz (sz12).
MaierFN:
said by the 1798 Schulz census to be the maiden name of frau
Kosnitz.
Meier
FN: said by the Seelmann FSL to be fromUC Birk.
I did not find them or any descendants in Mai1798. For a possible
1767 entry see T869?
MeyerFN:
said by the Seewald FSL to be fromUC Gundersweiler,
Pfalz.
Meier{Adam}
FN: said by the Shcherbakovka FSL to be fromUC
Weissach. Spelled Maier in 1790 and 1798 (Mai1798:Mv2778, Ho3,
Sv19 and possibly 56? and 59?
Meier{Christoph}FN:
said by the Shcherbakovka FSL to be fromUC Seline?.
Spelled Maier in 1790, 1796 and 1798 (Mai1798:Mv2774, 2793, Sp6,
Kr26(the wife’s maiden name is given as Ragenbach), Sv5, 55 and
possibly 56 and 59.
Meier{Leonhard}FN:
said by the Shcherbakovka FSL to be fromUC Ladenburg?.
Spelled Maier in 1798 (Mai1798:Gk16, Sv23 and perhaps 56 and 59?
Might be Laudenburg?
Maier{Magdalena}FN:
said by the 1798 Shcherbakovka census to be the maiden name of frau
Oblaender Mai1798:Sv7).
Meier{Martin}FN:
said by the Shcherbakovka FSL to be fromUC Laudenberg,
[Kurmainz]. I could not find any member of this family in
Mai1798.
Meier
FN: said by the Susannental FSL to be fromUC
Rodheim?, Hessen[-Darmstadt Landgraviate]. I could not
locate them or any descendants in Mai1798.
Meier{Friedrich}FN:
said by the Urbach FSL to be fromUC Apolda?, [Sachsen-]Weimar
[Duchy]. Spelled Maier in 1798 (Mai1798:Ur13).
Meier{Friedrich}FN:
his wife was said by the Urbach FSL to be fromUC
Kirdorf, [Hessen-]Darmstadt [Landgraviate].
Meier{Christoph&frau}FN:
said by the Warenburg FSL to be fromUC Erlangen, [Brandenburg-]Bayreuth
[Margraviate]. For 1798 possibly see Mai1798:Sr13?
Meier{Conrad}FN:
said by the Warenburg FSL to be fromUC Brsch?,
Nuernberg [Imperial City]. Spelled Maier in 1798 (Mai1798:Wr111).
Meier{J.Augustus}FN: said by the Warenburg FSL to be
fromUC Gaterschlein?, [Schleswig-]Holstein [Royal
Duchy].
Meier{Johannes}FN:
said by the Warenburg FSL to be fromUC Kranichstein,
[Hessen-]Darmstadt [Landgraviate]. I could not find
them in Mai1798.
Meyer/MeierFN: according to Steven Hahn this family from
Edenkoben settled in Russia.
MeyerFN:
this family name was found recorded in Kirburg and in Kroppach
marriage records 1762-1767, and in Schotten parish records for many
generations prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.
Maier,
Mayer, Meier, and Meyer are all interfiled together
immediately above.
MeierhoeferVV: an alternate name for GalkaVV.
MeiermannFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to
be fromUC the Pfalz (no locality mentioned).
MeigFN:
see Mauch.
Meila(?)GL:
an unidentified place said by the Kraft FSL to be homeUC
to a Keifer family.
MeilbergGL: an unidentified place said by the Bettinger
FSL to be homeUC to a Hildebrandt and perhaps a Lehmann
family.
MeileFN:
see Maeule.
MeilingGL: an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya
FSL to be homeUC to a Fros? family. There are two very
small places of this name in Bavaria.
MeilingerFN: said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC
Olingen, Nassau.
Meimbressen?, Kurmainz[sic?]: said by the Seelmann FSL to
be homeUC to a Freitag family. The only meimbressen I can
find is 12 km NW of Kassel city and was then in Hessen-Kassel
Landgraviate, not Kurmainz.
Miemer FN: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be an
orphan girl in the Jung household.
MeimersGL, Sachsen: an unidentified place said by the
Bauer FSL to be homeUC to a Abel? family. There is
a Meimers, Thueringen, some 19 miles SW of Gotha.
MeimersdorfGL: is the name of the south suburban area of
Kiel, and said by the Holstein FSL to be homeUC to a
Koeln family.
MeimsheimGL: is 12 km SW of Heilbronn city.
Gerhard Lang
found that Beisel{Friedrich Jacob} married a Gauss woman here
in 1746.
MeinFN:
see Mai.
Meinetschlag(?): an unidentified place said by the Preuss FSL to
be home to an Turis? family. This susrely was the town that is now
called Malonty in the Czech Republic.
MeingottFN: said by the 1798 Boregard census to be the
maiden name of frau Ockel.
MeinhardFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Beseke(?). See Mai1798: Mn09, Mn27,Bb35.
MeinhardVV (aka Unterwalden): a Lutheran colony
founded in 1767 on the eastern side of the Volga river not far from
Luzern. To the best of my knowledge no copy of its First Settlers’ List
has been found and published. Anyone learning of such a document, please
let us know immediately.
MeinhardFN: also see Meinhardt.
MeinhardtFN: said by the Reinwald FSL to be fromUC
Stolberg-Gedern [County]. Spellled Meinhard in 1788
and 1798 (Mai1798:Mv2400, Pl9, 21, Rm26).
MeinhartFN: an orphan boy listed by the Boregard FSL
in the Mueller{Just} household.
MeinickeFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Zuchau. Spelled Meinicke in 1798 and his wife's maiden name
is given as Geier (Mai1798: Bx06).
MeininerFN: not found in an FSL but was in the 1775 Grimm
census #39 and 41. Spelled Meisinger in 1798 (Mai1798:Gm123
and 176).
MeiningenGL: was the seat of the Sachsen-Meiningen Duchyand
is some 31 E of Fulda.
MeiningerFN: said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg (no locality mentioned), and the maiden name of one of the
two frau Meininger is given as Zeller and his mother-in-law’s name is
also given as Zeller. An orphan Daut? Was living with another
Meininger household.
Meinzing(?)GL: an unidentified place said by the Holstein
FSL to be homeUC to a Pfeiler family. The only
Meinzing I can find is in Bavaria some 33 miles NE of Regensberg.
MeisFN:
said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Steinig?.
Kuhlberg said this was in Fulda.
Meisburg: see Meisenburg.
MeischFN: according to the Buedingen ML a Meisch
woman, no origin given, married a Ross man in 1766; by 1767 the
couple was in Stahl-am-Karaman (Mai&Marquardt#426).
Meisdorf, [Magdeburg Duchy], Preussen: is 16 miles SW of
Halberstadt city, and said by the Merkel FSL to be homeUC
to an Elzow family.
Meisenburg?GL, [Kur-]Sachsen: said by the
Jost FSL to be homeUC to a Lorenz family. This might
be Meisburg, some 1.5 miles SW of Hettstedt.
Meisendorf?, Bamberg [Bishopric]: an unidentified place
said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC to a Spister/Speister
family and possibly to their Spindt step-children.
MeisenheimGL: until 1797 this was a Kreis or district
administrative center for the Pfalz-Zweibruechen Duchy.
MeisenheimGL, Kreuznach [Oberamt],
Rheinpfalz: is some 12 miles SW of Bad Kreuznach city and 20
miles W of Alzey city. It was also a District administrative center.
It was governed by the Pfalz-Zweibruecken Principality until 1795,
then by France until 1816, and then Bavaria until WWII. It
was proven by the GCRA as home to the Aman/Amann{Philipp}
family that went to Kassel, and as
home to the Feigert/Feikert/Feukert
family that settled in Neudorf.
MeisenheimGL, Kurpfalz: said by the Bauer FSL
to be homeUC to Ranert and Reichel families.
The contemporary Pastor Seyffarth makes it clear
that this actually is Mettenheim, Wartenberg [County]
(Mai&Marquardt#1238, 1245, 1247).
Meisenheim [Amt]GL, Rheinpfalz: is some 20
miles W of Alzey city, some 12 miles SW of Bad Kreutznach, and
was a District administrative center.
MeisenheimGL, Wittenberg: said by the Bauer FSL
to be homeUC to Fischer and Reichel families.
The contemporary Pastor Seyffarth makes it clear
that this actually is Mettenheim, Wartenberg [County]
(Mai&Marquardt#1238, 1245, 1247).
MeisenheimGL, [Pfalz-]Zweibruecken [Duchy]:
is some 35 miles NE of Zweibruecken city and 12 miles SW of Bad
Kreuznach. Said by the Jost FSL to be homeUC to a
Schledewitr family. Said by the Louis FSL to be homeUC
to Eckhard and Faupel families as well as frau Kumpallo
and, possibly, her Schaefer son. Said by the Reinwald FSL to
be homeUC to the Steinpreis family.
MeisenheimGL, [Pfalz-Zweibruecken Duchy], Kurpfalz:
said by the Degott FSL to be homeUC to a Muelberger{Casimir}
family. Same place as the previous entry
MeiserFN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC
Wintelz?, Nassau. Spelled Messler? in 1790 (Mai1798:Mv354).
MeiserlingFN: said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC
Kurpfalz (no locality mentioned) and his wife’s maiden name is given
as Schulz.
Meisinger FN: said by the Messer 1798 census to be the
maiden name of frau Geiss of Messer (Mai1798:Ms69).
MeisingerFN: said by the Messer FSL to be a step-son
living in one of the two Lang households.
MeisingerFN: also see Meininer and Meissinger.
MeisnerFN: said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC
Lebbin, Brandenburg.
MeisnerFN: said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC
Halle.
MeisnerFN: said by the Lauwe FSL to be fromUC
Bayreuth (no locality mentioned).
MeissingerFN: said by the Balzer FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg. Bonner
proved his parents, including his Hart/Hardt mother, were baptized in
Aulendiebach, Isenburg[-Buedingen County]. Also
spelled Meisinger. A contemporary
Aulendiebach record said this couple with their children left in 1766
for Russia (Mai&Marquardt#1258).
MeisingerFN: aka frau Kaufmann{Johannes}lived in
Schilling (Mai1798:Sg22); Bonner
proved that she was baptized a Meissinger in Aulendiebach,
Isenburg[-Buedingen County].
MeisnerFN: not found in an FSL but was in the 1775 Grimm
census #5. For 1798 see Mai1798:Dn21.
MeisterlingFN: said by the Messer 1798 census to be
the maiden name of one of the frau Manweiler (Mai1798:Ms54),
as well as of frau Schneider (Mai1798:Ms46).
MeitnerFN: said by the Schwed FSL to be fromUC
Bruen. I could not find them or any likely descendants in Mai1798.
MeitnerFN: the wife was said (no locality mentioned) by the
Schwed FSL to be fromUC [Pfalz-]Zweibruecken.
Meizin?, [Hessen-]Darmstadt [Landgraviate]: an
unidentified place said by the Warenburg FSL to be homeUC
to a Get family.
Mekerkingen?GL, Wittenberg (mistake for
Wuerttemberg): said by the Lauwe FSL to be homeUC to a
Mekler family. I believe this was Maegerkingen, Wuerttemberg
Duchy … rak.
MeklerFN: said by the Lauwe FSL to be fromUC
Mekerkingen?, Wittenberg. I could not find this family in the
1798 censuses.
Mekmal?GL: an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to an Ephardt? widower.
MelcherFN: see Melkhert.
MelchiorFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be
fromUC Polen (no locality mentioned).
MelchiorFN: this family name was found recorded in
Schotten parish records for many generations prior to 1767; see
Flegel trip.
MelchiorFN: see Kaes.
Melem(?)GL,
Kelheim: an unidentified place said by the Preuss FSL to be
home to Engelbert families. There is a Mueellem, North
Rhine-Westphalia, some 40 miles NW of Cologne.
MelkhertFN: said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC
Verg, Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter. Later spelled
Melcher.
MellFN:
said by the Kukkus FSL to be fromUC Boddin, Brandenburg.
MellerFN: see Legler and Miller.
MellingerFN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC
Sierck/Sirsk(?), Frankreich.
Mellinghausen: said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to homeUC
to a Hilgenberg/Hildenberg family. This probably was in
Hoya County, Kurbraunsweig 26 miles SSE of Bremen city centre.
MelsungenGL, Hessen: 13 miles SSE of Kassel
city.
Meltendorf(?)GL:an unidentified place said by the
Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Sachse family.
A Rosslau ML says this man married in 1765 a Knittel woman (Mai&Marquardt#190).
This may be the Meltendorf that is some 9 miles E of Wittenberg,
Sachsen-Anhalt.
MelzerFN: said by the Holstein FSL to be fromUC
Kretz, Sachsen.
Melzing?, Oesterreich: an unidentified place said by the
Rosenheim FSL to be homeUC to a Horst?. family. There
is a Melling in Austria.
Mem?FN:
see Mehm.
Memel,
[Ost]Preussen: nka Klaipeda, Lithuania, was 12 miles
SSW of Crottingen city, and said by the Husaren FSL to be homeUC
to a Noriheim family. Said by the Schulz FSL to be homeUC
to frau Mattern.
Memelsdorf(?)GL, Holstein: said by the Holstein
FSL to be homeUC to Schmiese and Schwin families.
Dona Reeves-Marquardt proved that this was Meggerdorf, Friedrichsholm
colony.
MemmingenGS, [Kurbayern]: was in the 1760s an
independent city-state, i.e. a free imperial city. It now is in Bavaria,
is some 30 miles SE of Ulm city, and is said by the Herzog FSL
to be homeUC to a Glaser and probably a Wagner
family. Said by the Volmer FSL to be home to a Wiessner
family.
MendtGL:
an unidentified place said by the Kano FSL to be homeUC to
a Mueller{Adam} family. This may have been in Kurkoeln some
13 miles ESE of Bonn city.
MeneFN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Dielmel?,
Paderborn. In 1798 the family name was spelled Menet and the
wife’s maiden name was given as Messin (Mai1798:Nb16).
MenerFN:
said by the Kano FSL to be two orphans in the Hauer
household. I could not find the Meners in the 1798 Volga censuses.
Mener?FN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Bamberg (no
locality mentioned). I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga
censuses.
MenetFN:
see Mene.
MengFN:
said by the 1798 Galka census to be the maiden name of frau Frank{J.Wilhelm}(Mai1798:Gk10).
MengFN:
said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC Kurpfalz (no
locality mentioned).
MengFN:
also see Ming.
MengelFN: said by the Urbach FSL to be fromUC
Busecker Tal, [Hessen-]Darmstadt [Landgraviate].
I could not find them in Mai1798.
Mengers(?)GL: said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC
to a Bindewald family. The Schlitz ML says this is Meiches.
Menges?FN: said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC
Scherstong?. I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga
censuses.
MengesFN: said by the Dehler FSL to be fromUC
Sachsenhausen, [Kur-]Trier. For 1793 see 1798Mai:Mv380.
MengesFN: said by the Shcherbakovka FSL to be fromUC
Sem?, Daenemark [Kingdom]. Also may have been spelled
Mingen in 1798 (Mai1798:Sv58 and 4?). This man married a
Mathes widow in Buedingen in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#598).
MeningFN: see Mensing.
MennikeFN: said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC
Weissbach. I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
Menning, [Kur-]Bayern: is 7 miles E of Ingolstadt
and was said by the Dehler FSL to be homeUC to a
Lattenbach family.
Menningen?, Kurpfalz[sic?]: said by the Warenburg FSL to
be homeUC to a Berger family and possibly to a Conrad
family. I could find no Menningen in former Kurpfalz lands – there are two
in former Kurtrier lands.
MenoholtzGL: see Isenburg-Meerholz?
MensfeldenGL: see Muentzfelden.
MensingFN: two families said by the Koehler FSL to be
fromUC Fulda (no locality given), and one frau’s maiden
name was given as Hahn while the other’s was Gassner (no
origin given for either). ). The family name was spelled
Hassenhauer in 1798 (Mai1798:Kl35,65).
MensingFN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC
Hilders. Later spelled Mensinger (Mai1798:Pf41).
Mensing{Anton} FN: said by the Seelmann FSL to be an
orphan boy in the Walter household. In 1798 spelled Mening
and Messing (Mai1798:Ka21).
Mensing{Magdalena} FN: said by the Seelmann FSL to be
an orphan girl in the Reinhardt household. I did not locate her in
Mai1798.
MensingerFN: see Mensing.
MeininerFN: not found in an FSL but was in the 1775 Grimm
census #39 and 41. Spelled Meisinger in 1798 (Mai1798:Gm123
and 176).
MentzeFN: see Mintser.
Menualt?GL: an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Karera? family.
MenzelFN: this woman was said by a Friedberg ML to be
fromUC Grossen Buseck and to have married in 1766 a
Fruend man (Mai&Marquardt:322). The man was in Paulskaya
by 1768 apparently with a new wife.
MenzelFN: said by the Reinhard FSL to be fromUC
Leipzig, [Kur-]Sachsen. I could not find them in
Mai1798.
MenzingenGL, Mentzingen Barony: is some 9 miles SW of
Sinsheim city. Arliss has found some evidence that the Clauser
family which settled first in Dobrinka may have come from here having
earlier come from Switzerland. Said by the Galka FSL to be
homeUC to a Tefer? family.
Menzingen, Bruchsal [Amt], Baden: said by both the
1858 Kassel census (#244) and KS:340 to be originUC
to Kraemer{Johann} who was born in Kassel. This is the same
place as the previous entry, but several decades later.
MeolderFN: said by the Leitsinger FSL to be fromUC
Aschalwitz?. I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga
censuses.
Merck
FN: see Merk.
MerckleFN: see Amann.
Merdershein?GL: an unidentified place said by the
Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC to a Wulf57 Kuhlberg
said this was in Bayreuth. I could find no such or similar place
name in lands that had belonged to the Bayreuth Margraviate.
MerenbergGL, Nassau-Weilburg: is some 14 miles WSW of
Wetzler city and said both by the Laub FSL and by a
Friedberg ML (spelled Mehrenberg) to be homeUC to a
Deis family.
MergburgGL, Hessen: an unidentified place said by the
Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Koehler
family.
Mergelz?GL, Frankreich: an unidentified place said by
the Mariental FSL to be homeUC to a Leber family.
MergenthalGS: an unidentified country mentioned by Kuhlberg
in relation to Nervgenstal and the Model family.
MergentheimGL, [Teutonic Order]: said by the
Pfeiffer FSL to be homeUC to an Erlichhaeuser family.
It is now Bad Mergentheim some 22 miles SSW of Wuerzburg city
and was in the 1760s the seat of the farflung state controled by the
Teutonic Order.
MergentheimGL, Donauwoerth(sic for Teutonic Order?):
said by the Rohleder FSL to be homeUC to a Trautmann
family.
Merhardt FN: said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to be fromUC
Friedewald, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]. Spelled
Marquardt in 1786 (Mai1798:Mv2304).
Merier FN: see Kraemer of Orlovskaya.
Merine?FN: said by the Holstein FSL to be fromUC
Dergin(?).
MeringerFN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC
Estrig?, Kurmainz. Spelled Mehringer in 1798 (Mai1798:Bn77).
MerkFN:
said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Laas, Sachsen.
Spelled Maerker in 1798 (Mai1798: Bx2, 9,38).
MerkFN:
said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC Muensingen,
Schwaben. I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
MerkFN:
said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC Fischbach,
Falkenstein. In 1798 spelled Moerck and Merck (Mai1798:Lb6,
Jo35).
MerkelFN: said by the Balzer FSL to be fromUC
Schweiz, but said by the Stumpp version to be fromUC
Kurpfalz (no locality mentioned in either case). By 1775 one was in
Grimm (census #37). For 1798 see Mai1798:Bz103, Gm85, 91, Mo12).
Merkel FN: said by the Bergdorf 1816 census (KS:661,
372) to have been either fromUC Rauental, Rastatt [Amt],
Baden or fromUC Grosssachsen, Mannheim
[Amt], Baden. However, the GCRA using
FHL(193,873) has proven their origin to be Kleinniedesheim, Worms
[Amt], Pfalz; and they proved using FHL(766,099,
905,257 and 905,268) that the family lived in several places in Galicia
(including: Deutschbach (Reichau parish), Heinrichsdorf,
Ostrowiec, and Sabawa of Stojanow (Catholic) parish,
near Josefow(aka Josephsberg)), as well as Burtneck
and Ranzen, near Riga, Latvia, on their way to Russia.
This was an extended family serveral of whom moved from Galicia to
Bergdorf at different times; see the GCRA book for much detail.
Also spelled Merkels and Merckle.
Merkel? FN: said (no locality mentioned) by the Boregard
FSL to be fromUC Rot with a Schulz stepson living
in the household. I could not find th Merkel family in the 1798
Volga censuses.
MerkelFN: said by the Goebel FSL to be fromUC
Schlierbach.
MerkelFN: this stepson of Stuckart by his first wife is said
by the Kromm version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be fromUC
Bobenhausen, Hanau (pp.29, 34).
MerkelFN: said by the Merkel FSL to be fromUC
Hamburg.
MerkelFN{Anna Katarina} FN: said (no locality
mentioned) by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC [Hessen-]Darmstadt.
Merkel FN{Katarina}: said (no locality mentioned) by the
Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Hamburg.
MerkelFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC
Romrod?. The 1798 Paulskaya census said his wife’s maiden
name was Tautrich (Mai1798:Pl01).
MerkelVV (aka Makarovka, and Makarowkaka)
was a Lutheran German village on the western side of the Volga. Its FSL is
published in Pleve, The German Colonies …, pp.421-430.
According to that, the first settlers were from the following places with
the family names shown here in parens:
from
Alsace: (Rohlmann);
from
Alstein, Pomerania: (Specht);
from
Alteno/Altenau(?): (Brigmann);
from
Berlin, Prussia: (Wegelin);
from
Brandenburg: (Lohmann);
from
Copenhagen, Denmark: (Elbach);
from
Debertsin(?), Austria: (Grason?);
from
Dresden, Saxony: (Margheim);
from
Finland: (Olofsen);
from
Flensburg, Holstein: (Zeiser);
from
Galborsht(?), Prussia: (Foerster);
from
Gildeseer(?): (Gieseke);
from
Hamburg: (Brigann, Fokht/Vogt, Hasselbach, Kastens, Lampe, Merkel,
Rik?, Schildt, Schumacher);
from
Hannover: (Litseu?);
from
Kiel, Holstein: (Flohr);
from
Kyusen(?): (Metz);
from
Leipsig, Saxony: (Just);
from
Litikh/Littich(?), Saxony: (Bese/Boese?);
from
Lton(?): (Bresiger?);
from
Lutenburg, Holstein: (Walter);
from
Lysanderhausen, Saxony: (Neumann);
from
Magdeburg, Prussia: (Beckmann, Frank, Redlov?);
from
Mecklenburg: (VonHolstein);
from
Neuburg, Wuerttemberg: (Adam);
from
Poland: (Hoffmann);
from
Riga, Lifland: (Miller);
from
Saxony: (Getse/Goetz?);
from
Schlyagenzet(?), Denmark: (Brant/Brandt)
from
Sester, Holstein: (Sontau);
from
Stuttgart, Wuerttemberg: (Siegfried);
from
Temppi(?), Prussia: (Krieger);
from
Tilsit, Prussia: (Artzer);
from
Ulm; (Gel?);
from
Vienna, Austria: (Fortner);
from
Vliograd(?), Hamburg: (Bruns);
from
Wenger, Prussia: (Wegelin);
from
Worms, Kurpfalz: (Becker);
from
Zelelfeld(?), Braunschweig: (Schredo?).
MerkerFN: said by the Graf FSL to be fromUC
Wuerzburg (no locality mentioned). Later spelled Maerker (Mai1798:Gf16).
Merkewitz, Prussia: an unidentified place which the GCRA
found associated with a Heine family in 1749.
MerlFN:
see Merle.
MerlauGL, [Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate]:
is some 15 miles ENE of Giessen city. Said by the Buedingen
ML to be homeUC to a Gruen woman who married a Wurm
man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Grimm (Mai&Marquard#501).
Said by the Kraft FSL to be homeUC to a Becher
family. Said by the Buedingen ML to be homeUC to
the Gruen
woman who married in 1766 a Bender man
(Mai&Marquardt#500); by 1767 this couple was in Stephan. .
Merlau?, [Hessen-]Darmstadt [Landgraviate]: is 24
km ENE of Giessen city and was said by the Warenburg FSL to be
homeUC to a Rahn family. This is the same place as the
previous entry.
Merle?
FN: said by the Rosenheim FSL to be fromUC Brakin?,
Wuerttemberg [Duchy]. In 1786 spelled Merl (Mai1798:Mv2453).
Merlein?FN: said by the Leitsinger FSL to be fromUC
Reuth, Bamberg [Bishopric]. Spelled Mehrlein in
1798 (Mai1798:Hz38, Sm8).
MermisFN: see Marmis.
MerschFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg (no locality mentioned). I cannot find them in the index to
the 1798 censuses.
MerscheburgFN: see Moeserburg.
Merschlem?, [Kur-]Brandenburg: an unidentified place said
by the Urbach FSL to be homeUC to a Schmidt{Gottfried}
family.
Merseburg, [Kur-]Sachsen: is 17 miles W of Leipzig
city and was said by the Reinwald FSL to be homeUC to the
Jung family.
MersfeldGL, Kurpfalz: an unidentified place said by
the Preuss FSL to be home to an Dekhel? family. This probably
is Moersfeld, Rhineland-Palatinate, some 22 miles NNE of
Kaiserslautern.
MertenGL: see Mirten.
MertesFN: see Martis.
MertzFN:
said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Koenigshofen,
Nassau.
MertzFN:
said by the Leichtling FSL to be fromUC Regensburg
(no locality mentioned).
MertzFN:
said by the Reinhard FSL to be step-children in the Klinger
household. For 1798 see Mai1798:Mh1.
Mertz?
FN: said by the Stahl-am-Tarlyk FSL to be fromUC
Dorup, Daenemark [Kingdom]. For 1798 see Mai1798:St49).
MertzFN:
said by the Urbach FSL to be fromUC Geidigem?,
Mecklenburg. For 1798 see Mai1798:Ur30,Ka132.
MertzFN:
this family name was found recorded in Schotten parish records for
many generations prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.
MertzFN:
also see Maerz, Martis, Merz or Metz.
Merxheim?, [Kur-]Trier?: said by the Reinwald FSL
to be homeUC to the Neuwirth{Georg}family. This Merxheim
is 14 miles WSW of Bad Kreuznach and was not in Kurtrier. It
was just S of the Nahe River in a medium sized barony the name of which I
have so far been unable to discover.
MerzFN:
listed by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:676, 373) as coming
by way of Torschau, Hungary. Using FHL(717,097, and 717,055),
the GCRA
proved they did not come through Hungary, but came directly from Hunspach,
Sulz [Amt], Elsass. See the GCRA book
for more details. Also spelled Maerz.
MerzFN:
according to the Grimm FSL a single Merz young man (no origin
indicated) was living with a Heppel family from Darmstadt (no
locality indicated). He is called brother to the head of the household …
might be brother to the wife? Later spelled Mertz.
MerzFN:
said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Bern?.
MerzFN{J.Peter}:
this man and wife left Fraenkisch-Crumbach in 1766 for
Russia (Gieg1). So far I have found
no trace of them in Russia.
MerzFN:
also see Werz.
MerzhausenGL: an unidentified place said by the
Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Salorkube? family
and possibly to a Schmidt family. There were at least 5 Merz- and
Marzhausen in the Germanies.
Merzhausen, Nassau[-Usingen Principality]: is 5 km
WSW of Usingen town and was said by the Warenburg FSL to be
homeUC to a Schiffman family. Another source mistakenly
spelled this as Erzhasen.
MerzigGL, Kurtrier: is some 21 miles S of Trier
city and said by the Keller FSL to be homeUC to a
Hoffmann family. Said by the Mariental FSL to be homeUC
to Asselborn, Breit, and Siehr families, and possibly a
Knapp family.
Merzig, [Kur-]Trier: Said by the Seelmann FSL to be
homeUC to a Bies family.
Merzwald(?)GL, Elsass: an unidentified place said by
the Dietel FSL to be homeUC to a Urban family.
MesingFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC
Borgatfeld?. In 1798 the family name was spelled Messin (Mai1798:Pl62).
MeskauGL, Prussia[n Farther Pomerania]: is now
Morzyca, Poland, and was some 27 miles ESE of Settin,
Prussia. the GCRA found evidence that this was the birthplaceUC
of the Berg man who was in Kassel 1818-20 and 1827-33, having
come via Golno, living in Katerschin, a Bulgarian village near
Odessa City 1821-1826, and finally moving to Arcis,
Bessarabia in 1827.
MeskeFN:
said by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:676) to be fromUC
Gross Kotten, Braunschweig [i.e. Brandenburg, then part of Prussia], while
KS: 373 said that the family had then come from there via West
Prussia. The GCRA concluded that their origin was probably in
Gross-Kotten, and then in Ascherbude, both in Filehne Kreis,
Posen province, Pussia. See the GCRA book for more
details. Also spelled Moeske and Messke.
Messein(?)GL, Pfalz: an unidentified place said
by the Pleve version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be homeUC
to a Fuchs family. Kromm seems to spell ie Messen.
MesselgruebeGL, Kurmainz: an unidentified place said
by the Preuss FSL to be home to Becker, Gupert/Hupert/Hubert?,
and Weitz families.
MessenGL: see Messein.
MesserFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be
fromUC Wuerttemberg (no locality mentioned)
MesserFN: said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC
Kurpfalz (no locality mentioned).
MesserFN{A.Dorothea}: said by the Norka FSL to be an
orphan daughter of Johannes Messer living in the Popp household. I
could not find her in the 1798 Volga censuses index.
MesserFN{Elizabeta, Just}: said by the Norka FSL to
be orphaned children of Johannes Messer living in a Bauer household.
For possible 1798 entries see Mai1798:Nr29 and Bz68?
MesserFN{Heinrich}: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg (no locality mentioned). For 1798 see Mai1798:Nr58,
48 and possibly 29?
MesserFN{J.Just}: said by the Norka FSL to be an
orphaned son of Johannes Messer living in the Deis household.
MesserVV: (aka Ust-Solikha, Ust-Solicha, and
Ust-Zolicha) is a Lutheran German village on the western side of the
Volga founded in 1766. Its FSL is now published in Pleve, Einwanderung
…, vol.III, pp. 131-153. According to this, the first settlers were
from the following places (unfortunately the clerk listed only states, no
localities) with the family names shown here in parens. Other spellings of
family names, usually from later sources are in square brackets. Verified
corrections are in red. The number with the family name is their household
number in the FSL:
from
Ansbach: (Emert[Emmert]30);
from
Aulendiebach,
Isenburg[-Buedingen
County]: (Meisinger57a,
frau Lang (nee Meissinger)57,
frau Herdt (nee Meissinger)58,
frau Geis (nee Meissinger)59);
from
Brandenburg: (Baecker[Becker]25, Brauer4, Focht14,
Masch29, Rady[Radi]27, Stando?26, Stenzel34,
and possibly Schmidt27a);
from
Bueches/Buches,
Isenburg[-Buedingen
County]: Kaiser/Kayser47,
48, frau Henkel (nee Kaiser)49,
Schlaegel53,);
from
Darmstadt: (Emmerling?92, Nenies?[Nunius]84);
from
Durlach: (Dinkelacker[Dinkelaker]24a and frau Hammel24);
from
Eckartshausen,
Isenburg[-Marienborn
County]: (frau Zieg (nee Bohn)73);
from
Falkenstein: (Schanz[Schantz]21);
from
Frankenlict?: (Mauter15);
from
Goloisch?: (Hammel24);
from
Hamburg: (Didion19);
from
Hannover: (Ernst85, Zwingmann13);
from
Hessen: (Laufer83);
from
Huettengesas,
Isenburg[-Meerholz County]:
(Burbach87a,
Zieg71, 73);
from
Isenburg: (Arnbrecht[Armbrecht]66, 70a, Bert?28,
Betz81, Deisel74, Dickmann[Deckman]60, Dickmann[Ditman]3,
Eckel35, Geis[Geiss]59, Goebel77, Goetz39,
44, Henkel[Hinkel]49, Herdt[Hardt]62,63,78,
Hergenhein[Hargenhein]46, Herr[Geier]89,
Hoffmann54, Holland[Goland]71a,
Kaiser47,48, Klapp[Klap?]61,
Kraus76, Krecker?55, Lang56,57, Lehr69,70,72,
Lipps68, Lorey[Lorei]65, Meininger40,41,42,
Mueller43, Nuss88, Ochsenhirt36, Osterreich[Oestreich]7,
Popp82, Ritter80, Roeder[Raeder]91,
Satler[Sattler]50, Schaefer52,
Schlaegel53, Schmidt45,67,79,61a,
Schneider87, Schott64, Trautmueller[Trachmueller]51,
Ullrich[Ulrich]75, Weber38, Weibert35a,
Wiederholt[Wiederhold]90, Willmann37, Zeller86,40a,
Zieg71,73, and possibly
Burbach87a, Daut?[Thaut]41a,
Laubach69a, Meisinger57a);
from
Kurpfalz: (Beckel22, Lorenz20, Meiserling17,20a,
Meng10, Messer1, Schmall[Schmal]31, Schmidt8,
Schwan23, Weber32, and possibly Brauer10a and Just32a);
from
Rinderbuegen,
Isenburg[-Birstein?
County]: (Roeder[Raeder]91);
from
Odenwald?: (Brunner[Bruner]10a);
from
Ulm: (Neher[Ner?]33);
from
Wolferborn,
Isenburg[-Birstein County]:
(Roeder[Raeder]91);
from
Wuerttemberg: (Roesler[Ressler]18, Schmidt6);
from
Zweibruecken: (Manweiler5,9,11,12, Schneider2).
MesserschmidtFN: he was in Schaefer in 1798 (Mai1798:Sf7)
but I could not find him in any published FSL.
MessinFN: said by the 1798 Paulskaya census to be the
maiden name of frau Menet (Mai1798:Nb16).
MessinFN: also see Mesing.
Messing{Christian,Margaret,Julianna}: listed in the 1798 Seelmann
census (Sm14) but I could not find them in any FSL.
MessingFN: also see Mensing.
MessingerFN: said by KS:374 to be from Wuerttemberg
and to have gone to Glueckstal; but the GCRA could not find
anyone of that surname in any Glueckstal colony.
MesskeFN: see Meske.
MesslerFN: said by the Leichtling FSL to be fromUC
Wartenberg (no locality mentioned).
Messler?FN: also see Meiser.
MessnerFN: listed by the 1814 Bergdorf census (KS:665,
274) with no origin. The GCRA thinks they might have been from
Klein Ingersheim. Also spelled Moessner. See the GCRA
book for detail.
Meterheim(?)GL, Waltenberg: said by the Dietel
FSL to be homeUC to a Reis family.
This actually was Mettenheim, Wartenberg and
the family name was Rein (Mai&Marquardt#1249).
MetlerFN:
see Mettler.
Metten?GL: an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Brumbien? widow.
MettenheimGL, Wartenberg: is some 7 miles NNW of
Worms city. It was home to Pastor Seyffarth who
provided a contemporary report on families that went to Russia. It was also
home to the Mattheas woman who married a Schlund man in 1768
and lived in Bauer (Mai&Marquardt#1243).
According to the pastor, it was also home of a
Boehmer couple (wife nee Weigand), of a Knobloch man, of a
Reichel man, and of a Rein couple, all of whom settled in
DietelVV (Mai&Marquardt#1236, 1241, 1244,
1249). Dona Reeves-Marquardt has found the
Knobloch, Reichel, Rein and Wirth family birth records
in Mettenheim, Wartenberg church
books.
MettenheimGL, Wuertemberg: said by the Dietel
FSL to be homeUC to a Boehmer? family.
This actually was Mettenheim, Wartenberg
(Mai&Marquardt#1236).
MettenzimmernGL: see Metterzimmern.
Metterzimmern, Besigheim [Amt], Wuerttemberg: was
proven by the GCRA to be home to the Benz/Bentz{Johannes}
family that settled in Neudorf.
MettichFN: see Mettig?.
Mettig?FN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC
Mockritz. In 1798 the family name was spelled Mettich (Mai1798:Ss14,17).
Mettler{J.Jakob}FN: the 1816 Kassel census (#35)
mistakenly said this family came fromUC Hochdorf,
Vaihingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg. The GCRA reported
that the oldest known roots of this family are in Blumenstein,
Bern Kanton, Switzerland, next moving for a generation or two in
Gumbreschtshof/Gundershofen, Niederbronn Amt, Elsass.
Using FHL#753,734 and 119,335 the GCRA
proved that this family moved to Rumbach, Bergzabern [Amt],
Rheinpfalz in the early 1700s which they left to go to Kassel.
Also spelled Metler.
Mettler{Melchior}FN: the GCRA says this family leftUC
Hochdorf, Vaihingen [Amt], Wuerttembergin 1809
going first to Glueckstal and then to Kassel.
MetzFN:
said by the Hoelzel FSL to be fromUC Kelheim,
Kurpfalz. I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
MetzFN:
said by the Merkel FSL to be fromUC Kyusen(?).
Later may have been spelled Mertz.
MetzFN:
this family name was found recorded in Haiger parish records during
the years prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.
Metz,
Lothringen: is 29 miles N of Nancy, France, and was said by
the Dehler FSL to be homeUC to a Westphale family.
MetzelFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be
fromUC Schwaben (no locality mentioned) and to have
married after his first wife died in Oranienbaum the widow Reiswig.
According to a Rosslau ML this man married a Geyer woman in
1766 (Mai&Marquardt#1007).
Metzenhausen?, Kurpfalz[sic?]: an unidentified place said by the
Schulz FSL to be homeUC to a Gabel family. The
only Metzenhausen I can find is 10 km WSW of Simmern town and was in
Sponheim County in the 1760s.
MetzerFN: said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be fromUC
Laubach. Spelled Metzler in 1798 (Mai1798:Om19,
Zg15, 34).
MetzgerFN {J.Georg}: said by the Anton FSL to be fromUC
Heidelberg Oberamt, Kurpfalz. For 1798 see Mai1798:An10,
1, and 27.
MetzgerFN{Nicholaus}: said by the Anton FSL to be fromUC
Mosbach Oberamt, Kurpfalz. For 1798 see Mai1798:A8
(where the maiden name of the wife was given as Beideck), as well as
Kk2 and St8.
MetzgerFN: said by the Bergdorf 1816 census (KS:659,
374) to have been fromUC Vailhingen, Stuttgart [Amt],
Wuerttemberg. However, the GCRA using
FHL(746,033) has proven his origin in Sessenheim,
Bischweiler [Amt], Elsass. See their book for more
detail.
MetzgerFN: said by the Leitsinger FSL to be an orphan
boy in the Hiller household.
MetzgerFN: said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to be fromUC
Berod. For 1798 see Mai1798:Pp1, 3, 38, Zr50, and the maiden
name of the wife is given as Kaufmann (Pp1).
Metzger{Johann}FN: said by the Warenburg FSL to be a
stepson in the Koehler{Franz} household. For 1798 see Mai1798:Wr79.
Metzger{Peter}FN: said by the Warenburg FSL to be fromUC
Holstein [neither country nor locality is identified]. I could not
find him in Mai1798.
MetzigFN: see Muetzig.
MetzingenGL, Reutlingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg:
is some 4.5 miles NE of Reutlingen city, and said by KS:434 to
be homeUC to the Schoell/Schell family that went to
Glueckstal. Said by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#117) and
KS:302 to have be homeUC to the Henning family
that settled in Neudorf.
MetzingenGL,
Wuerttemberg Duchy: is some 4 miles NE of Reutlingen, and
was the birthplace (about 1580) of DoerFN:
see Derr. It was also the birth place of a
Siegwart who went to Dreispitz.
MetzingerFN: said by the Graf FSL to be fromUC
Dindelsbuehl.
MetzlerFN: said by the Straub FSL to be fromUC
Lahnstein, Nassau[sic]. For 1798 see Mai1798:Sr39,30
and 42).
MetzlerFN: this family name was found recorded in Herborn
marriage records 1762-1767; see Flegel trip.
MetzlerFN: also see Metzer and Wetzler.
MeyFN{J.Heinrich}:
married a Rehl woman in Luebeck in 1764 ; others list her as a
Behl; they were in Shcherbakovka (Sv52) in 1798 (Mai&Marquardt#1).
MeyFN:
also see Mai and May.
MeyerFN:
interfiled with Meier.
MezieresFN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC
Strassburg, Elsass. I could not find this family name in the
1798 censuses.
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